Summary
Abhishek Patro is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, currently at Tesla in San Jose after a multi-year tenure at Spotify driving the migration from monolith to microservices. He has deep ad-tech and distributed systems expertise—having owned end-to-end features for Spotify’s Ad Studio, in-house ad-server migrations, and revenue-driving skippable ad products—and has open-sourced a lightweight protobuf client-generation library. Comfortable as a technical owner, he pairs hands-on engineering with architecture and cross-team coordination to modernize platforms and unlock new product capabilities. His background spans fast-moving consumer services (Olacabs), networking automation (Cisco), and internships at Microsoft, backed by a CS master’s from USC and a strong foundation from NSIT. Notably, he blends production-grade system design with a pragmatic focus on migration strategy and developer tooling that accelerates team delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, 78.26, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, 78.26 at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.76/4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.76/4.0 at University of Southern California
High School, High School at St. Marks Senior Secondary Public School, Janak Puri, New Delhi
English, Hindi, Odia